Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, decided to write a book about the Holocaust. Elie didn’t want this time period to ever be questioned by man. He also wanted people to understand the conditions of the concentration camps because no one would ever experience it again. Wiesel felt people would completely erase the holocaust from their memory, so he wanted to stop that from happening. He decided to write a book about it called Night, and he has also performed many speeches about the holocaust. When he first wrote his book, the French hated it. Elie wanted people to buy it, so he made it a shorter and more interesting read. Now it is read by many Americans in high school and college and it is keeping the knowledge of this tragic genocide. We are fortunate to still have him giving speeches and explaining what happened. He has been awarded many peace prizes for his work, and is keeping the knowledge of the holocaust to this day.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
Night Web Search Background Information for the Holocaust
Use the following websites for a quick overview of the following terms and people. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/
Kristallnacht means broken glass and was the nigh the Nazis stormed the streets and broke the glass in the Jews stores and took many of the Jews away. It happened November 1938.The Nazis attended and decided to take away the Jews. The final solution was when the Nazis took the Jews away and said they were Germany’s problems.
The Victims
Besides the Jewish people, list seven other groups were also targets/victims of the Holocaust?
Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
The targeted victims besides the Jews were Roma (Gypsies), people with disabilities, Poles, soviet prisoners of war, afro-Germans, Jehovah’s Witnesses and homo-sexuals. They were all despised and put in concentration camps.
The Ghettos
Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations.
There were three types of Ghettos and they were closed ghettos, open ghettos, and destruction ghettos. Closed Ghetto was a secret meeting of Jews for hiding areas. Open Ghettos were speeches for Jews in public. Destruction Ghettos rioted with Jews. The life was dangerous and filled with work and violence.
Labor camps was where the Jews were sent to work for the Nazis in bad conditions with terrible food, but the death camps was where the Jews were sent to be killed in the gas chambers. There were different forms of exterminations like shooting them or gassing them.
The Nazis liberated all of the camps. Hitler Killed himself near the end of the war. 25 defendants were chosen for the Nuremberg trials and the were represented as smart professors. The IMT decided to not legitimate defense because they were influenced by Hitler’s PropagandaAssignment 3: images of Night:
Assignment 3: Images of Night
Barbed wire
pronged,sharp
hurting, preventing, and sticking
like a hundred devils on a wire and acts as if it were a rose bush
a football player stopping every force
standing
on the edge of a Ghetto
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Albert H. Night Assignments
Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
Albert HuneckeEnglish 8P-7
January 26, 2010
Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, decided to write a book about the Holocaust. Elie didn’t want this time period to ever be questioned by man. He also wanted people to understand the conditions of the concentration camps because no one would ever experience it again. Wiesel felt people would completely erase the holocaust from their memory, so he wanted to stop that from happening. He decided to write a book about it called Night, and he has also performed many speeches about the holocaust. When he first wrote his book, the French hated it. Elie wanted people to buy it, so he made it a shorter and more interesting read. Now it is read by many Americans in high school and college and it is keeping the knowledge of this tragic genocide. We are fortunate to still have him giving speeches and explaining what happened. He has been awarded many peace prizes for his work, and is keeping the knowledge of the holocaust to this day.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
Night Web Search
Background Information for the Holocaust
Use the following websites for a quick overview of the following terms and people.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/
List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_in_nazi_germany.htm
2 They made sure the people couldn’t see anything damaging to the Nazis party.
3 They compared the Jews to rats, and made them seem bad.
Wannsee Conference
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/kristallnacht/
Who attended and what was decided at the Wannsee Conference?
What was the Final Solution?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005477
Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007457
CLUE: Begin reading at “Targeted Groups”
The targeted victims besides the Jews were Roma (Gypsies), people with disabilities, Poles, soviet prisoners of war, afro-Germans, Jehovah’s Witnesses and homo-sexuals. They were all despised and put in concentration camps.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059
What was life like in the ghettos?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007445
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005144
What were the conditions?
What different types of extermination were performed?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005145
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005131
What did Hitler do near the end of the war?
How many defendants were charged during the Nuremberg Trials? What did they represent?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007143
What did the International Military Tribunal decide was not a legitimate defense?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007142
Assignment 3: Images of Night
Barbed wire
pronged,sharp
hurting, preventing, and sticking
like a hundred devils on a wire and acts as if it were a rose bush
a football player stopping every force
standing
on the edge of a Ghetto